Much of tonight's meeting focused on assessment. Kate's feedback revealed that she amended last year's assessments with naked number sentences, and that her students often found more success with these questions than with the word problems.
Discussion moved to the difficulty students have with reading, and that perhaps we needed to make our assessments more robust - how can be be sure it is the math and not the reading that is being assessed?
So, several assessments were rewritten. Please, feedback is welcome!
We discussed Enough for the Class. Chris will make a second question with a number in the teens and a number below 10. Kate suggests a "how many more" question.
How many pennies?
[student a] counted 17 pennies.
[student b] counted 16 pennies.
How many do they have so far? [graphic of a penny]
11 + 8 =
15 + 18 =
EOU
18 students were on the playground.
11 students went inside.
How many are still on the playground?
33 - 8
14 - 6
Counting and Addition/Subtraction Strategies
Throughout the course of the meeting, we found ourselves discussing children's strategies. From the Implementing guide, here are the strategies we hope your students will be entering second grade with:
In Attendance:
KateJess
Mateja
Sandi
Theresa
Denise
Assessment
Much of tonight's meeting focused on assessment. Kate's feedback revealed that she amended last year's assessments with naked number sentences, and that her students often found more success with these questions than with the word problems.Discussion moved to the difficulty students have with reading, and that perhaps we needed to make our assessments more robust - how can be be sure it is the math and not the reading that is being assessed?
So, several assessments were rewritten. Please, feedback is welcome!
We discussed Enough for the Class. Chris will make a second question with a number in the teens and a number below 10. Kate suggests a "how many more" question.
How many pennies?
[student a] counted 17 pennies.
[student b] counted 16 pennies.
How many do they have so far? [graphic of a penny]
11 + 8 =
15 + 18 =
EOU
18 students were on the playground.
11 students went inside.
How many are still on the playground?
33 - 8
14 - 6
Counting and Addition/Subtraction Strategies
Throughout the course of the meeting, we found ourselves discussing children's strategies. From the Implementing guide, here are the strategies we hope your students will be entering second grade with:(in progress)